Purple and red, apples and pears
Category: CRAFT
The man who takes pictures in the sea
featuring PAVILIONS addiction recovery
‘It has been over 3 months now since I last drank alcohol and the longest it has ever been since I was 21. I never want it in my life.’
Two of a perfect pair
~featuring Celia Pym
Close your eyes. Imagine a set of twins. One is fair-haired, the other one dark. One cheeky, one serious.
One, an artist. The other, master of stick drawings.
On Grandma’s last story
-featuring Wavelength charity
Grandma was born in 1921, in a city at the bottom of the mountains. Her father was a shepherd. He would gather all the sheep from their neighbours, he’d take his own flock and climb up to the sheepfold on the first days of Spring. He came down from the top of the mountain with the first frost, bringing with him white cheese, milk, and sheep wool. Continue reading “On Grandma’s last story”
The Cardigan
featuring BBC Woman’s Hour Craft Prize
I own an eclectic wardrobe. Some of my dresses may even be a century old. Most trousers are winter sales snatches off the high street. My sister buys all my socks. The scarves and bags are from my sister-in-law.
I love mixing and matching and living in an a-temporal fashion gap. I sometimes receive compliments on my clothes… and sometimes I don’t.
One of the most surprising items to ever receive compliments on has been a cardigan. A green-grey, hand knitted, larger than average cardigan that got out of the wardrobe and onto my shoulders through pure luck, one random, chilly Tuesday morning. Continue reading “The Cardigan”